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bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message.
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Ted Zlatanov |
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bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message. |
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Date: |
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:02:05 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin) |
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:21:02 +0100 Thierry Volpiatto
<thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:
TV> Now emacs packages are widely used,
TV> it would be great to improve the startup message of emacs with a link
TV> about how to quickly setup package.el to be usable.
TV> I have regularly people complaining "It is not working" because
TV> they install packages through package.el and they don't add in their
TV> init file `package-initialize', or they try compiling autoload file
TV> etc... I have provided a link in my Readme file to redirect to a brief
TV> documentation on how to use all this, but apparently many don't read
TV> this...
I bring this up every 2 years or so; it's time...
In Gnus and Emacs we have assistant.el, which could be used to guide the
user through the necessary steps to get packages working and then go
straight to `list-packages'. Maybe it could be useful here?
Ted